Jayne Kelley

Jayne Kelley is an editor and writer based in Chicago. She is director of the Architecture and Design Open Archive, a study and publication center based in the schools of architecture and design at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She also teaches at the UIC School of Architecture. She is co-editor of American Framing (Park, 2023) and the Canadian Centre for Architecture series The Museum Is Not Enough (Lenz/CCA, 2025; Sternberg/CCA, 2019) and co-author of The Western Town (Hatje Cantz, 2013). Her writing has appeared in Area, Clog, the Journal of Architectural Education, MAS Context, NESS, OASE, and Flat Out, where she is a member of the editorial board. Through her freelance practice, she has copy edited dozens of manuscripts and has collaborated in various ways with the Architect’s Newspaper, the CCA, M+, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, and several architecture and design firms.